Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-23
G NEWS NOTES.

The messenger train on the MOntan
n Union Was an hour or two late y~esterda
re morning.
H. The list of delinquent taxes for 1885
now being made out in the collectors onl'
" and is to be published shortly.
C., A delay caused by waiting for the Shol
It Line train made the Utah Il Northern du
ID at $50 yesterday morning nearly SIX houi
late.
D.. The profits arising from the Eastern Sta
he ball on Friday evening are a
b about $3.50. It will take some time to &c
in all the returns.
Matthew Healey, w. NJ. Brown and Nj
b chael Godfrey the First Stake Mimi
claim for $25 5000.
q Judge McHattcn has, on behalf OF tn
City Hall nine, accepted a base ball chal
4 lenge from the Court House nine to com
:, off this day week.
a Jerry Mullen is in receipt OF a letter trou
. Jack Burke. who is now runni. 6 the Opera
. Il sample room at 100 South Clark street
. Chicago.
Gamblers are getting scared about the
, new law. Though it's provisions are no,
/. definitely known the skin games have large
. ~ shut down.
! Articles of agreement have been signed
by Jack Lawrence and Billy Lynn for a
twenty-round soft glove contest for points
, only for $3.50 a side to come off at the
Comique the 25th inst.
! The Phoenix, of Hartford, Conn.,, on the
14th inst, through the agency of F. E. w
Patten, adjusted and paid it's loss by the
J fire occurring on East Park street, on the
9th, to Mr.. D. H. Steel.
Mr.. Leahy's advices from St. Louis relate
that a regular panic took place in West
Granite yesterday owing to rumors OF in
siders letting 60 large blocks. In conse-
quence the price dropped to S1.75.
In the Probate Court a petition was filed
yesterday by Albert Minger for letters of
administration on the estate of his de-
ceased wife, Lucinda Minger.
About fifty cars of freight came in yes
terday from Garrison, and 100 more are
awaiting forwarding. The Montana Union
expects to nave all arrears cleared up to-
day.
St. Paul and Minneapolis papers OF the
18th were received in Butte this morning
at 1890. This brings all mail and ex-
press matter on the Northern Pacific up
to date.
The officers and soliciting committees of
the "Orphans' Home are requested to
meet and report at the residence of Mrs. J.
c. c. Thornton, this, Saturday evening,
at 1870 o'clock.
John G.. Evans, Clerk School District No.
l, has posted a notice on the Central
School building to the effect that the an
nual election of that district will be held on
Saturday, April 2, at the Central School
building for the election of one Trustee for
three years and one District Clerk for one
year. Polls will be open from 2 p. m. until
shutdown.
A remark dropped in this column yester-
day in reierencet to Winter being past seems
to rave walked the old fellow up, and he
forthwith showed his capacity for Ginger
ing" A furry Of snow ending about I
O'Clock and a decided fall of temperature
with a stiff breeze ~admonished us to go
slow o spring goods till we get the word
from the weather clerk.
The MINER office was honored yesterday
by a visit from DR.. I. Foikman, the veter- |
an editor of the Stats Zeitung, of P, IT.
land, Oregon. The gentleman arrived in
the city Friday and will remain a few days
to look over this great mining center and
to interview our German citizens in the in
terest of his excellent journal.
The proprietors of the Anaconda and
Philipsburg stage line, Messrs. Brownell &
Hammond, inform The MINER they havs
withdrawn it from service until the roads
improve. They say they are in such con
dition now that it is impossible to travel
over them. When they start again they
will publish the fact through these col
umns.
The Kids vs.. the Court House furnished
an exciting spectacle to lovers of football
in the Court House yard yesterday after
noon. Probate Clerk Sproale stood on
the steps and umpired impartiaIly, while
Judge Mediation acted as referee. 1t is
v,0ol1occ IN no- %1-% 4L1 Id -~A La:u
work in and gave their seniors more than
they could attend to.
At the Turnverein entertainment at Cap
lice Hall on Sunday evening the either
playing OF Art. Boiler and Messrs. and
Miss Mani will be a treat worth hearing.
They are proficient beyond the ordinary on
this sweet instrument. The instrumental
pe performances of Messrs. Wolff. Werlitz,
Oettinger and others will be a revelation to
many OF the fine attachments of many
in this city.
A disturbance created by Mike keegan
in Smiling A]hert's saloon on Friday night
him $40 and costs when Judge Nc
sifted the matter in the Police
Court yesterday. He was committed in
default. Charley, the barkeeper. who was
arrested for disturbance at the same time,
was proved to have been acting simply in
the discharge of his duty and was honor
ably acquitted. /
Messrs. Lachman & GAM. from San
Francisco, are the latest additions to
merchants. They lave rented the
store now occupied by Morris Bros. which
intend to remodel in frst-class style,
and on the LIST OF April will open an ex-
,lusively wholesale wine parlor and whole
sale and retail cigar stand upon the model i
those affairs now in vogue in San Fran
'lsco. Something novel is promised and a
aching void will be filled.
Mr.. Superintendent Dawson said last -,
that during the recent trouble on the
Montana Union he had built five bridges, -
repairing six Others between Silver =,
and Garrison. Ranchmen whom he :.
net who had spent ffFeen or twenty years =
here, said they never saw the Deer Lodge q
liver send down such a food. Blocks OF q
ce two feet thick and twenty feet long were l
hrownu up on the banks. Tn am >unt of ~
les scattered over pastures a mile from the ::
is incredible, and one man came to -
ina and complained if the ties were not re- :.
noved by the company from his land he =
'ould be unable to save any hay this sea- l
on. The road is perfectly safe u:,w. but a =,
eat deal OF work has yet to be lone in ~
he way of Strengthening bridges, etc, "
The exercises at the High School. the pro-
OF which appeared in cur issue of
esterday, came Off as announced. The
apers read were highly appreciated by the
the ~.declamations a%pplauded and
luch amusement was afforded the younp
articipants. Thu piano playing of MISS K
apton was enthusiastically received and, W
shows careful training by her teach st
;. Principal J. R. Russell is to be rom T.
on the proficiency and s~elf-reli- We
ace OF the pupils under his charge, it being ca
s practice to allow them to conduct these DC
entirely unaided or prompted bv ,.e
m, under the theory that the pupils fail oh
e under these conditions to make a cred. t.
.ble showing is a better spur to their am. er
tlon thar the most elaborate coaching. ne
The item in yesterdays issue in reference as
the appearance OF two dirt carts on ag
est Park street has been erroneouslv tn
by the gentleman in charge 81 re,
at department OF the city government. an
was in no way meant as personal, but tn
ther a reference to the task lit
is department has before it all over the fla
y. The city has three carts of it's own Fl.
work and has hired one additional ow
llch have each to make trips of two tie
lies to where they dump. OF course the
'eet-cleaning department can only de-.
tie what money the city appropriafea to